Thread: Shift Your Fingers One Key to the Right for Easy-to-Remember but Awesome Passwords

Shift Your Fingers One Key to the Right for Easy-to-Remember but Awesome Passwords



You're constantly told how easy it would be to hack your weak passwords, but complicated passwords just aren't something our brains get excited about memorizing. Reader calculusrunner offers a brilliant tip that turns weak passwords into something much, much better.

His clever solution: Stick with your weak, dictionary password if you must; just move your fingers over a space on the keyboard.



If you want a secure password without having to remember anything complex, try shifting your fingers one set of keys to the right. It will make your password look like gibberish, will often add in punctuation marks, and is quick and simple.
When John Pozadzides showed us how he'd hack our weak passwords, he listed his top 10 choices for getting started hacking away at your weak passwords. Let's take a look at how a few of those popular passwords fare when run through calculusrunner's method:

password => [sddeptf
letmein => ;ry,rom
money => .pmru
love => ;pbr

Something longer but still really lame, like, say, "topsecretpassword", becomes "yp[drvtry[sddeptf". These may not be perfect compared to secure password generators, but they're likely orders of magnitude better than a lot of people's go-to passwords.

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Shift Your Fingers One Key to the Right for Easy-to-Remember but Awesome Passwords

Domvr O s;esud ,rdd i[ yu[omh smuesu/ O svyis;;u drr idr om yjod. sd o s;esud yu[r nsvleptfd

Somebody decode that NOW!

Originally Posted by InsanePinoyBoy

Domvr O s;esud ,rdd i[ yu[omh smuesu/ O svyis;;u drr idr om yjod. sd o s;esud yu[r nsvleptfd

Somebody decode that NOW!

Your bored IPB.
Really Bored..

Nice tip btw,
Might consider using it...

Nice tip, never thought about that. Might use it...

Originally Posted by InsanePinoyBoy

Domvr O s;esud ,rdd i[ yu[omh smuesu/ O svyis;;u drr idr om yjod. sd o s;esud yu[r nsvleptfd

Somebody decode that NOW!

Domvr O s;esud ,rdd i[ yu[omh smuesu/ O svyis;;u drr idr om yjod. sd o s;esud yu[r nsvleptfd
since i always mess up typing anyway i actually see use in this, as i always type backwards

Somebody as bored as you finally decoded

Nice tip.

However, there are other options. Since most of the passwords are case sensitive, you could try to shift upcase and lower case keys. Other options is to replace letters with numbers.

E.G:

ManchesterUnited -> M4nch35t3rUn1t3d

It is easier to remember and isn't weak against a dictionary attack.